Moroccan Double Doors with Moorish Style Openings

Just over nine feet of cedar, with a smaller door waiting inside the large one.

These double doors with Moorish style openings come from Morocco in North Africa and date to the 19th century. They are carved cedar wood with brass fittings. Moroccan families hung doors like these at the entrances of courtyard houses, to guard their privacy, and a small door within a large one let people pass without opening the whole. Rows of recessed panels rise on both leaves. Horseshoe arches with carved borders frame the lower sections, with brass rings set above. Over nine feet high and fifty-five inches wide.

Guests were expected to knock. Few would have needed to be told twice.